56 ROAD, PARK, AND SCHOOL 



I have never exhibited a horse publicly, but 

 I once rode a horse that I had trained before some 

 gentlemen who were interested in the subject of 

 schooling-, and the incident was noticed, by repre- 

 sentatives of those papers, in The Times of June i, 

 1883; The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News 

 of June 2, 1883 ; and Vanity Fair of June 9, 1883. 

 I reproduce the article of The Times, as it bears me 

 out as do the others in what I have said regard- 

 ing the results of schooling : 



' What may be done for a horse, not apparently 

 by natural conformation fitted to be used for the 

 saddle, simply by a course of kind, patient, and 

 intelligently-directed schooling, has been exempli- 

 fied, not a little to the surprise of the few gentlemen 

 who have been invited to see it, by an animal 

 belonging to Mr. Edward L. Anderson, one of our 

 visitors from America, who is known by his works 

 on the habits and management of the horse, to many 

 lovers of this animal. At first sight Alidor is 

 certainly not a promising subject as he stands in the 

 riding-school waiting for his master to mount him. 

 He is low at the shoulder, his head is heavy, the 

 mouth shallow ; he stands with hinder limbs well 

 out at an angle, and one is not surprised to learn 

 that the dam was a Norwegian drudge, and that in 

 his youth Alidor had an unenviable power of pulling 



